VGChartz: For the last hundred or so years people have been using boycotts to voice disdain for things that make them angry. In the case of the famous Montgomery Bus Boycotts of 1955, a boycott was both successful and ushered in a wave of change that ultimately helped stop racial segregation in America. The bus boycott worked for many reasons, first it got an entire city thinking about an issue that many took for granted, and second it brought an industry, thought to be unjust, to its knees. Black citizens walked, hailed cabs, and did basically everything to avoid taking the public transportation within the city. This showed that a bus was a luxury that people could “live without” if they needed to, and that message was heard.
Unfortunately, we gamers want to think of ourselves as the voice of the consumer, and stage boycotts for things that make us mad. Poor DLC implementation, games we don’t want, games we do want but aren’t getting: these are all potential causes for us to take action. The problem is that we are all mostly slackers, and either give in too quickly or resort to illegal means to get the things we want.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Let's be honest the L4D2 Boycott was kind of right in the end, the only reason more people didn't want to get behind it was because people thought they would get called "pathetic" or a "whiner"
Valve spilt the community of L4D and it ruined the first game, they said they would support the first game like TF2 before L4D was released and they lied, they then said before L4D2 that they would still support L4D but even then "The Sacrafice" was made for L4D2 aswell. Plus to put the final nail in L4D's coffin they decided to kill Bill off over a unliked/bland character lik Rochelle. I love Valve but they f*cked up over L4D, look how well supported TF2 is, I wish the same would of been done to L4D instead of it getting a sequel.
"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything" - Alexander Hamilton
Game Boycotts don't work is because as long as the money is still rolling in they can care less what happens out side of their investments.Which means... IT's ALL ABOUT THE MONEY GUYS!! I know I know..Sad...but that the way it goes. Now I have seen some changes taken lately,especially this year alone; I mean we gamers are getting tougher and tougher the more game publishers milk us out of our money as well as all of the shady business practices well all have to endure. BUt that all going to change simply because we gamers got these game developers in our back pockets this time. And soon enough, well have them begging we gamers for mercy.That being said, I can see with in a couple of years from now the gaming industry will be at are feets.
I like this article I hope those hacktivist actually reads it and see that there is a problem with the execution of their protest.
They seem to be working for me, can't speak for anyone else, but i think my bank account is larger due to me BOYCOTTING most of the IP sequels and New IP released this year , I can't speak for others, but i have NOT COMPROMISED "Principal" to play a Video-game. If the game doesn't meet my quality standards, i pass on it, without question, AND i will continue my campaign against the GREEDY DECEITFUL, and CORRUPTING Forces in the Industry.
The sad thing is it's hard to tell the effects of boycotting since every time a game under performs you never hear the publishers acknowledging boycotting as the factor involved, they just blame piracy instead.
We hear it constantly, this game or that game sold less copies than anticipated ... it was down to those stinking pirates again. We all know damn well piracy isn't to blame all the time, but we'll never hear it admitted, nor will it change anything.